Meaning & Profit

A new stage from 1 September 2026

Social commitment with tradition – and a future
The STEINENSCHANZE Charming City & Garden Hotel has been run since 1 September 2026 by Steinenschanze AG, a subsidiary of Sinn & Gewinn Hotels AG. For 25 years, Sinn & Gewinn Hotels has pursued a clear approach: entrepreneurial action and social impact are not a contradiction, but belong together. In all the group's hotels, social impact is created directly in operations: through Supported Education and Employment for trainees with support needs and women from vulnerable target groups, as well as through housing for women in transitional and emergency situations.
This very tradition is now being continued at the Steinenschanze and rebuilt for Basel. The Steinenschanze is now also to be redesigned for Basel as a Social Enterprise.

A history of social commitment
The owner of the property is the association COMPAGNA bewegt Menschen, Sektion Basel, a socially engaged association with around 125 years of history, originally founded under the name «Freundinnen junger Mädchen». The building itself was originally run as a girls' boarding house before developing over the decades into today's hotel. With the proceeds from hotel operations, the association has for many years built up and co-financed social work organisations in Basel, including the SOS Bahnhofhilfe at Basel railway station, which it continues to support on a voluntary basis.

A new stage: social impact within operations themselves
With the takeover by Steinenschanze AG, the house is not only continuing this tradition, but carrying it into operational practice: as in the existing Sinn & Gewinn Hotels, an independent social programme for women is also to be created at the Steinenschanze. The project is currently in development, together with suitable partners. A concept tailored to Basel is now being developed. 
The STEINENSCHANZE Charming City & Garden Hotel therefore sees itself not as a classic commercial business with a social side effect, but as what Sinn & Gewinn Hotels have been since their founding: a place where hospitality, economic success and social impact are inseparably linked.